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Are you considering Kajabi over Skool?

Compare features, pricing, and scalability to choose the best platform for your business.

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Quick comparison guide

Skool is built for community and courses. Kajabi is built to run your entire expert business from one unified platform.

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Skool

Community & groups

Integrated community platform with spaces, events, and direct messaging

Core strength, but locked inside Skool's ecosystem

Course hosting

Full native course platform with drip, cohorts, and completion tracking

Basic modules inside a community, limited delivery options

Email marketing

Built-in broadcasts, sequences, and automation tied to products and offers

No native email, requires a separate tool

Sales funnels & checkout

Visual funnel builder with full checkout, upsells, and order bumps

No funnel builder, members pay through Skool only

Coaching programs

Native 1:1 and group coaching with scheduling and session management

No dedicated coaching infrastructure

Marketing automations

Advanced automation tied to purchases, behavior, and milestones

No marketing automation

Website & landing pages

Full website and landing page builder with custom domain

No website builder or standalone pages

Payments & revenue

Kajabi Payments with no revenue share, multiple pricing models

Skool takes a platform fee on all memberships

Analytics & CRM

Full business analytics, revenue tracking, and contact CRM

Basic member activity and engagement data only

Best for

Experts who want community as part of a complete business system

Creators who want a standalone community with light course features

Why choose Kajabi?

Skool builds the community. Kajabi builds the business around it. Kajabi connects your products, marketing, automation, email, and payments so your community is one part of a system that actually generates revenue.

A business platform, not just a group

Skool gives you a place for people to gather. Kajabi gives you a place to run a business. Native courses, coaching programs, memberships, digital products, and email marketing all in one system, not bolted onto a community tool.

Marketing that actually reaches people

Skool has no email marketing. No funnels. No automations. If you want to reach your audience outside the platform, you're on your own. Kajabi's automation engine handles onboarding, engagement, upsells, and win-backs without a second tool.

Own your business, not just your community

Skool controls the experience. Kajabi gives you your own platform, your own domain, your own brand. When you build on Kajabi, you own the relationship with your audience, not a third-party community app.

Kajabi is more than a funnel builder

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Kajabi product experience showing a 1-on-1 coaching session booking and creator video call interface

Built-in marketing engine

Build landing pages, email campaigns, funnels, and automations. All working together to drive consistent demand.

  • Visual sales funnel builder
  • Landing pages and opt-in forms
  • Advanced behavior-based automations
  • Campaign tracking tied to revenue
Kajabi checkout and payments interface with pricing options and multiple global payment methods

Revenue optimization tools

Leverage upsells, subscriptions, bundles, and offer structures designed to increase lifetime value.

  • Upsells and order bumps
  • Subscription and payment plans
  • Offer bundling
  • Native checkout experience
Kajabi member portal with community feed, posts, challenges, and progress tracking

Multiple revenue models

With Kajabi, you can sell courses, coaching, memberships, communities, and digital products from one platform.

  • Online courses
  • Coaching programs
  • Memberships
  • Digital downloads
Kajabi checkout and payments interface with pricing options and multiple global payment methods

Unified analytics and customer insights

See your marketing, sales, and customer behavior in one place so you can make smarter growth decisions.

  • Revenue and subscription tracking
  • Product performance insights
  • Customer lifecycle visibility
  • Centralized CRM data

Why experts choose Kajabi

Justin Welsh, Content Expert & Solopreneur

There were so many different things that I was trying to cobble together using various solutions, with Zapier... which fails every once in a while. I moved over to Kajabi and had all that stuff under one roof, which was a blessing for my business.

Justin Welsh
Content Expert & Solopreneur
$10M+
Earned on Kajabi
Brittney Carmichael, Business Coach

"Before I found Kajabi, I was just a hairdresser with an idea. Kajabi gave me the tools to be able to take all these ideas that I had as a hairdresser and put them somewhere."

Brittney Carmichael
Business Coach
$600K+
Earned on Kajabi
Carrie Lupoli, Nutritionist

"I did a two week trial with Kajabi and within a day I realized how much easier everything was for me. It wasn't until I joined Kajabi and gave my systems some sort of a focus and organization that I actually started really making money."

Carrie Lupoli
Nutritionist
$2M+
Earned on Kajabi

Frequently asked questions

What is Kajabi?

Kajabi is the operating system for human expertise. It gives experts one place to build, market, sell, and deliver their work so they can run a real business without relying on scattered tools. The system brings products, marketing, payments, and client experiences together in a clear and connected workflow.

Who is Kajabi for?

Kajabi is for real experts whose knowledge is earned through lived experience. Coaches, educators, practitioners, clinicians, creators, and service professionals use Kajabi to share what they know and build a business around it. If you guide people through a transformation, Kajabi is built for you.

What can I build on Kajabi?

You can build courses, coaching programs, digital products, memberships, communities, and high-value client experiences on Kajabi. The platform supports simple information products as well as structured, relationship-based programs that help clients achieve real transformation.

What makes Kajabi different from other platforms?

Kajabi is different because it replaces a patchwork of tools with one unified system. Starter platforms are easy to begin with but limit growth. More complex tools are powerful but heavy to manage. Kajabi combines clarity and strength so experts can run their entire business in one place without complexity.

How does Kajabi help experts grow their business?

Kajabi helps experts grow by connecting their identity, products, audience, marketing, and client delivery in one system. This creates a clear path forward and reduces the friction that comes from using separate tools. Experts move faster because every part of their business works together.

Is Kajabi a good platform for selling digital products and expertise?

Yes. Kajabi gives experts one connected system for creating, marketing, and selling their digital products. You can build courses, coaching programs, memberships, and other knowledge based offers, then deliver them through a professional client experience. The platform includes email, landing pages, checkout, automation, and analytics, which removes the need to manage separate tools. Experts choose Kajabi because it supports both simple digital downloads and more advanced, transformation focused programs, all inside a single business system.

Is Kajabi good for beginners who want to grow into a larger business?

Yes. You can start with a single product and expand as your business grows. Kajabi is designed to support both early-stage experts and experienced leaders, without requiring you to switch platforms or rebuild your systems as you scale.